Before it was released, Greg Graffin said a lot of it is a straight throwback to 1981.
At the show played in New York on September 26, 1997, he said they were making a new album and considering the title to be "The Hippy Killers".
Greg Graffin on (no) substance: "I'm not bitter, bu... Read more

The whole album was recorded in Ithaca, New York. No Substance was the album which took the shortest amount of time when considering songwriting and recording. It was both written and recorded in the studio and virtually no pre-production was done. Mixing and mastering only took a few weeks.
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Late 1997 it was counted by Alternative Press as among the year's top 25 most-anticipated albums.
Jay: "You know, Brian and I did all those interviews with No Substance and The New America where we just kinda painted on a smile saying 'this is great; this is the greatest record we've ever don... Read more

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